On the family blog
Oh dear, Josh Duggar is being unsubmissive and disobedient. That’s not very quiverfull of him.
Former “19 Kids and Counting” star Josh Duggar went into a Christian rehab after he was exposed for cheating on wife Anna in the Ashley Madison hack, but now his whereabouts might be unknown, Radar Online reported Tuesday. Duggar reportedly entered the Reformers Unanimous treatment center, in Rockford, Illinois, which his parents publicly have supported, to treat his admitted porn addiction, but the eldest Duggar sibling has not shown up to church services and meetings mandated by the program.
Well, his messing around on the side without his wife’s knowledge or submission (we have to assume there’s no such thing as “consent” from a subordinate to her boss) isn’t a crime, unlike the sexual molestation of underage girls. It’s not a crime so it’s not really anyone’s business whether he showed up to church services or not.
Except that he has made everyone else’s business his business, by being Mr Family Leadership guy, so to some extent we get to return the favor. Not to mention the whole tv thing, where they get to advertise the joys of having 19 children and talking about god all the time, so we sort of get to peer at them when they do a pratfall.
The disgraced father of four, who was previously involved in a sex scandal for fondling his younger sisters, entered rehab Aug. 25. “Yesterday Josh checked himself into a long-term treatment center,” his mother, Michelle, wrote on the family blog. “For him it will be a long journey toward wholeness and recovery. We pray that in this he comes to complete repentance and sincere change.”
Yeah see it’s not just a “scandal.” Molesting children is not just a scandal.
Anyway. Creepy Josh is hiding out somewhere. Maybe he’s working on new campaigns against same-sex marriage.
Pro tip for Pa Duggar, on counting:
Just two more kids and it won’t be enough to take off both socks to count’em.
Just three more and not even removing underpants* will go far enough.
* If such exist in that family … eew.
Hmmmm, what did Leviticus say about disobedient children again? Wasn’t it something or other involving DEATH?
No kidding, I hope he shows up at a Vegas strip club somewhere with a fist full of $1s, drinking cheap gin and smoking a stogie.
Not only is it not a ‘scandal’, it’s not a sex scandal. He molested children. That’s not sex.
Well apparently it was sex for him.
Which raises a question that is meta meta to other discussion we are having. Is sex just a physical act (i.e. is that the essential point) which therefore only requires that act to take place regardless of personal or societal views; or is it a cultural construct that requires more than the physical act, or not even the physical act?
If you accept the essentialist proposition then consensual sex, rape, statutory rape and masturbation are all just circles within the venn diagram of sex. But, deciding to be unfaithful to your partner and even actively planning and preparing to do so would not be until the actual act occurred.
Rob, as with any paraphilia, the actual acts (if any) are no more important than the sexual frisson they evoke.
(Is voyeurism a victimless act?)
The idea that sexual abuse, or sexual violence is magically ‘not sex’ seems very popular. Ophelia has hit the nail on the head observing that Josh’s ‘sex’ might have nothing to do with his victim’s feelings or wants. ‘Cause that’s how the Bible wants it.